The fate of the city school year will be determined in a matter of days, Mayor de Blasio said Thursday morning.
“I think we are a couple of days away — two, three days away — from getting to that decision,” Hizzoner said during a press conference at City Hall.
With the nation’s largest school system of 1.1 million kids shuttered by the coronavirus, de Blasio said there was still some faint hope of resuming in-person classes at some point.
“We’ll decide soon if we think there’s a window to still save any part of the year,” he said.
But a Department of Education source said Thursday that there was almost no chance that kids would return to their buildings before the summer break.
With the contagion rampaging across the city, the DOE shuttered school buildings and hastily transitioned to remote learning last month.
City Hall announced $264 million in DOE budget cuts this week.
